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Once again, the sss was is twice as good as his track record (season). So if we are going to discount sss, which I don't have a problem with, let's at least try to do so uniformly. You discounted the sss size listed for Ross and seem to agree it is OK to do so becuase it doesn't really mesh with his track record. I have no problem with that.

But when I drop the sss on Wisler stats listed from his last 5 starts (27 innings), you seem to imply the small sample size doesn't matter because his track record is good. When in fact the small sample size listed (WHIP .59) is nearly half that of his WHIP on the season.

So if you want to dismiss Ross's last 5 starts as small sample size and because of his track record, please give a logical explanation of why the same should not be done for Wisler. Do you think he will be able to have a WHIP of .59 over a full season? If not, why in the heck would his last 5 starts (in which he has a .59 WHIP) not be indicitive of an outlier based off of a small sample size?

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Nobody is making a case for Wisler as anything other than what we already know about him, that he's a top prospect performing well ahead of schedule for someone at his age and level. That's the difference. People are taking Ross' hot streak and projecting it forward, and that's where the disagreements arise. No one is doing that for Wisler here. He's still on the same path he was on with the same projection. That he continues to impress and seemingly get better after being pushed to AA is really impressive, but it only reinforces what we already know.

Probably not. I'd have him 3rd, behind Hedges and Fried. I think there's something to the worry about his arm-heavy delivery. It's not something you see in starters. He's doing a great job though. I'd like to see him get the Latos treatment, and be up with the team next summer.

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Probably not. I'd have him 3rd, behind Hedges and Fried. I think there's something to the worry about his arm-heavy delivery. It's not something you see in starters. He's doing a great job though. I'd like to see him get the Latos treatment, and be up with the team next summer.

I'm not sure how he falls behind Fried at this point. Results have to mean something and he is both young and dominant in AA. Fried has fallen off the pace big time in low A. Hedges number one is no problem for me.